Word: lashing
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Searching for an epithet with which to lash Italian husbands and wives who indulge in birth control, Benito Mussolini in his family newsorgan. Il Popolo d'Italia coined the scathing descriptive phrase "mere gymnastic love...
Criticism of the public works expenditures felt the presidential lash...
...73rd Congress turned Indian-giver on President Roosevelt. Last year, in the first flush of the New Deal, it had delegated to him enormous executive power to purge the veterans' pension roll and readjust government wages as a means of balancing the ordinary budget. Last week, under the lash of two of the most potent lobbies in Washington, it snatched back that power from the White House and returned pension reform to the pork barrel...
...slight, sandy-haired man who gets ideas for some editorials while riding on a roller coaster in Louisville's amusement park, Editor Armentrout remained in jail long enough to pay the price of 50? rather than "50 licks with a black lash" for joining a prisoners' Kangaroo Court. After one hour his lawyer got him out on a writ of habeas corpus...
...have suffered untold damage to our old established business by the ambiguous publicity given out concerning the Tugwell bill. In a recent issue of the Paramount Newsreel, Professor Tugwell told a truly appalling tale of injuries caused by a poisonous preparation, but neglected to give its name as "Lash-Lure" or to state that it was a dye, merely calling it an eyelash "beautifier," and concluding his speech with the dreadful remark, "This is the kind of stuff you women use on your eyelashes...